Los Angeles Pierce College
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| Type | Public community college |
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| Established | 1947 |
| President | Dr. Kathleen Burke-Kelly |
| Students | 23,000 |
| Address | 6201 Winnetka Avenue Woodland Hills, CA 91371 USA |
| Campus | Urban; 426 acres (172 ha) |
| Colors | Scarlet and White |
| Athletics | CCCAA – WSC |
| Nickname | Brahmas |
| Mascot | Brahma Bull |
| Affiliations | LACCD |
| Website | www.piercecollege.edu |
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| Location | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles |
| Built | 1951 to 1981 |
| Architect | John Ehn |
| Reference no. | 939 |
Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College and just Pierce, is a community college that serves more than 23,000 students in the northern Chalk Hills of Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The college began with 70 students and 18 faculty members on September 15, 1947. Originally known as the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture, the institution’s initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husbandry. Nine years later, in 1956, the school was renamed to Los Angeles Pierce College, retaining the name of its founder, Dr. Pierce, as well as his commitment to agricultural and veterinary study. (Pierce still maintains a 225-acre (91 ha) working farm for hands-on training.)
Pierce College offers courses on more than 100 subjects in 92 academic disciplines, and has transfer alliances with most of the universities in the state. Students at the school successfully transfer to UC and CSU schools.
Students can pursue any of the 44 associate’s degrees or 78 Certificates of Achievement the school offers directly.
Pierce College comprises 426 acres (172 ha) amidst a dense metropolis, an area larger than many university campuses, including that of UCLA. The grounds are landscaped with more than 2,200 trees, thousands of roses and a 1.9-acre (0.77 ha) botanical garden. The Pierce College farm houses small herds of cattle, sheep, goats, a small poultry flock, as well as a llama and an alpaca for its students to learn from.
The Associated Students Organization (ASO) is the official Student Government of the 23,000 students at Los Angeles Pierce College. It has been in existence since the mid-1950s and has two branches; Senate and Club Council. Club Council is the official organization that addresses and improves student life through the actions of the numerous clubs on campus. The Senate is the abiding student government that conducts their meetings in accordance to the Brown Act. ASO is governed under the LACCD Academic Senate policy. Senators are voting members, which have the ability to vote on certain actions taken at Pierce to improve life for the student. Under the actions of shared governance, ASO Senators sit on numerous committees in school including the Diversity and the Equity Committee.
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